Who else would play Harry Fabian but Richard Widmark or Gilda but Rita Hayworth?
When Bob and his twin brother did the play, “The Prince and the Pauper,” at eleven years of age, he knew he wanted to be an actor like his famous father, Richard Dix. The remark made by his Dad at the time encouraged him; “It looks like you’ve got it in your blood, Son.” Born May 8, 1935, as a twin ten minutes younger than his brother Richard, Bob grew up in their hometown of Beverly Hills, California. People involved in the movies and their children were always part of his young life. Bob studied as an actor at the Nation Academy of Theater Arts at Pleasantville, New York the summer he was sixteen. The live stage appearances served as a solid foundation for his future as an actor. Through a friend, Bob was given a test at MGM Studios when he was eighteen years old and the studio signed him to a long-term contract. There he started with a few lines in some of the MGM’s movies such as, “The Glass Slipper,” The Kings Men,” and “Athena,” starring Debbie Reynolds, his first Movie Star date
